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Mr. Gaetz has withdrawn his name as of an hour ago or so. Could be someone has something pretty provable on him and has let him know known that they're willing to use it. Or it's all a planned tactical move, as Hail commented and Tim Pool theorized several days ago. Somehow I'm not very surprised about it.

PS: Alarmist, from a guy named Norm Franz who writes about money and stuff:

Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves.

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Greetings, Peakers.

Given that most Americans (perhaps all of us if you count property taxes and the USA’s assertion of the right to tax Americans world-wide) are debt slaves, maybe a slave is a more appropriate picture for Federal Reserve Notes. Tubman was an escaped slave, so why not Dred Scott, who though escaped from slavery, was returned to it by a SCOTUS decision ... that would be far more emblematic of our plight. 🤡🌎

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PS: Hello, Achmed!

Yeah, I thought you'd appreciate that cat meme. I like it because it reminds me of my good friend Whiteface. (I miss him.)

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PS: And, nice meme, Adam. Thanks. Puts it all in perspective, a cat's perspective.

PS: "It is a little odd that Andrew Jackson is on a Federal Reserve Note..." That's from that 1st Tubwoman post. Yes, I know a little history of President Jackson and the attempt at a central bank. (There's also some pretty cool letter out there, in which Jackson refuses to sign a bill to help out some group of Americans that were devastated by some sort of fire or natural disaster. The way he put it made it very clear - the US Feral Gov't is not there to dole out money, even for the best of causes. (My paraphrase there.))

Anyway, since we've unfortunately got those pieces of paper out there, as much as he'd abhor it, better Jackson, or Madison, or one of 100 other great White guys should beat out that Tubwoman, even she was a strong believer in Amendment II.

BTW, in the 2nd of those PS posts, Rex Little used the abbreviation SJW, for Social Justice Warrior, of course. It seems like that one went out of style quickly.

PS:Good morning, Mr. Moderator and friends...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/286126358518
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/farewell-address-0

𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝐽𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦...

I think Andrew Jackson would be appalled to learn that his likeness is emblazoned on the communist central bank's paper debt instrument. Andrew Jackson, as you know, was a strong opponent of paper scrip. In 1836, Jackson issued the Specie Circular, which required all federal land purchases to be made with gold or silver, not paper money. (In harmony with the tender clause of Article 1 § 10.)

In 1841 Jackson wrote “Congress has the express power to borrow, but not to issue bills of credit, or make a paper currency”, a statement that I am very much in agreement with. Too bad the criminals masquerading as "government" don't feel the same way about abiding by the constitution or common sense. Too bad Americans (in general) are too stupid and cowardly to do anything about it.

I'm pretty sure you and I have talked about some of this before, Achmed, and some of this discussion may be under those Tubman-thumping links you posted. (I didn't check.)

If anything, they should put Jackson on a $20 gold coin.
That, makes sense.

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𝐿𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿...

We usually get a few nice warm(ish) days after our first cold(ish) spell in the fall, so I leave the ac in until sometime after that. And I did use the upstairs ac about a week before I pulled them, so that's about right timing wise. (Unless we have a December heat wave because of the climate emergency! or something.)

I used to have one of those penny collections, in a previous life. I'm pretty sure I left them behind and will never see them again. I do, however, still have my mercury dimes and other silver coins. Those, I didn't leave behind.

https://i.ibb.co/2tshFrL/Silly-Little-Buttons.jpg

Happy Saturday! 🙂 ☮️

PS: The road is for cars. Not for sleeping...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qClBRaretEk

PS: That last one is brilliant, Alarmist, and I don't mean in the British sense. I take it you just thought of that, and I suppose if Trump has, that would indeed be some great 3-D deal art.

PS

I assumed Thune might be a problem, but it dawns on me that Mr. Trump might know who’s on Epstein’s list. Either that, or Trump’s buddy Bibi, who needs him more than ever, might use AIPAC to lean on him to make the right choices.

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PS: Thanks for the suggestion for that beautiful numismatic-value set, Mr. Smith. My son doesn't have 983 dollars or 49 Tubmans plus a Clinton* for this mint set, and I sure as heck ain't gonna lend him it!

He's doing pretty good, having started with a set of pennies that my brother and I had collected back in the '70s. You could still find, I don't know 5% or so wheat-stalk pennies in your change in that day.

I will need to take a window unit out too. It hasn't had to run in 2 months. Laziness for the L. It's not sealed in very well, so, yeah, pretty soon now...


* I had a pack of $3 Bill Clinton Bills for fun for a while, back in the '90s.

PS: Good afternoon, everyone,

https://www.usmint.gov/harriet-tubman-2024-three-coin-proof-set-24CR.html

Just writing in to say hi. Hope you're all doing well. Beautiful day here. Warm and sunny. Well, not like warm warm. But nice. (Took the air conditioners out of the windows because it's getting cold at night, so I guess fall is officially here.)

I guess I don't have much to say. Super lazy about commenting lately. Anyway...

Happy Friday! 🙂 ☮️

PS: Mike, if you've got your ears on, I'll not argue about "The Houses of the Holy" v Kashmir here, but indeed that riff is similar to Joe Walsh's in "Life's Been Good", as you wrote. However, Zeppelin wrote their song 5 years of so earlier. (I'm not going back from Joe Walsh's '78 song to the '75 "Physical Graffiti", as I'm pretty sure they wrote it back in '73 or earlier, obviously for the album of that name - as I wrote, it didn't appear there - lack of room, I guess.)

That Joe Walsh song is one that I gotta admit is good greatly due to its lyrics. He was a fun guy. Wiki says that the lyric about his Maserati and 185 mph was "from experience". What a country we had!!

PS: Mr. Hail, I know that, because he wants everyone to like him - besides already known enemies like the Lyin' Press and the Totalitarians - Trump is averse to ever state things explicitly pro-White. I imagine he realizes that the Tubwoman, as compared to the great soldier and leader Andrew Jackson, is nothing.

I'm sure he gets why Andrew Jackson, or some very important White man, should be on the twenty, but he won't state that reason. He'll come up with something else, and he did stall it - it got stalled out for almost a decade.

I have a series of 3 posts on this:

www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1799

"Tubmania and a cashless economy"


www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1801

"More on the Tubwoman Twenty"

and

www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1804

"Final Tubman-thumping post"

Yes, of course that last one has that unique song from the late 1990s. Was it partially rap? (Shudder)

"She drinks a maple drink, she drinks a vodka drink,
she drinks a lager drink, she drinks a cider drink ..."

PS: I read through those threads, Mr. Hail, so I saw that comment from Mike Tre. I too was shocked, and not in the Captain Renault sense either.

WTF is wrong with that guy? I understand he's a big NeoCon (always has been, per the meme), though he's backed off the "Rah Rah, Ukraine!" blather. I must have missed mention of the Tubwoman and the twenty. BTW, besides the NeoCon stuff, I normally agee with Glenn Reynolds.

Mike Tre, if you happen to be reading, I did a search on the web for "instapundit harriet tubman", found nothing, but then went to his own site and searched for "harriet tubman".

Here's what I see: He's somewhat facetious when writing about this supposedly Libertarian gun-toter. His other bloggers went farther. You may have something better to link us to, but let me paste in this, from 9 years back:

I RECOMMEND GUN-TOTING REPUBLICAN WOMAN HARRIET TUBMAN: A woman will appear on redesigned $10 bill in 2020. Who will it be?

UPDATE: Quin Hillyer: The Decision to Replace Hamilton on the New $10 Bill Is Outrageous and Ignorant. Well, you see, we couldn’t replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill because, although he was a racist genocidaire who defied the Supreme Court, Jackson was also the founder of the modern Democratic Party, which still holds annual fundraising dinners in his name.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Jim Bennett stands up for Hamilton: “I protest the blatant discrimination against Caribbean immigrants signaled by the removal of the only Founder born outside of the Thirteen Colonies.”

Posted at 8:59 am by Glenn Reynolds on Jun 18th, 2015

Yeah, he's being somewhat silly here, or is the Andrew Jackson bit part of DRR, Democrats are the Real Racists?

PS: Yeah, I get your idea on the bargaining, Mr. Hail. Trump fancies he's the best with The Art of the Deal. However, the situation calls for strategic and tactical THINKING, not just deal-making. These guys - hopefully the smart and bolder guys that will be working for Trump this time - have got to twist arms, cajole people, and downright threaten them (not physically... I guess...)

Find a way to put pressure on the Thune cuck so that he knows he damn well better, through twisting arms himself, get Matt Gaetz appointed. You need a stick that's bigger than whatever sticks or carrots have already been used on him by the Deep State, and maybe he's just a UniParty member who really is in Washington for the cocktail parties. Some of these people in Trump's camp have got to know what the real story is. Is the enemy just too strong? Again, get people in the NSA, who can find the goods on nearly ANYBODY, involved.

I get your point on the low-classiness of bargaining in general. It's not the mark of a high-trust society, or a high-trust Congress, haha, that's a good one! Seriously, the Congress of decades ago still had guys who could trust each other, even if on opposite sides of "the aisle" - not all of them, I'm sure. I'll make a big exception on low-class bargaining in American history for used car dealers. What was it that Bai Dien's Daddy did for a living again?

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Political prisoners: physical people imprisoned in physical jails, or the like. Or other state-based persecution like seeking to ruin people (like Rudy Giuliani, who absurdly owes $150,000,000 to two Black Georgia election-workers he supposedly "defamed" in 2020). The USA has this kind of thing under the Biden administration. But no system ever has very many of them in absolute number.

More important is a psychological version of a "political prisoner." We have very many of those. And many even otherwise on a "Right."

For example, on the Treasury Department policy (?) of phasing in Harriet Tubman (the escaped slave and professional anti-racism activist) on the $10 or $20 bill. Mike Tre writes this, which surprised me:

"Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has advocated for Tubman to replace Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill for over 10 years.

Point being there are still a lot of people who fancy themselves as conservatives who eat up this egalitarian nonsense and are completed out to lunch on the issue of racial differences."

Will Trump Term Two print Harriet Tubman U.S. banknotes?

I don't know what level of confidence to assign to a guess that Trump would go through with the Harriet Tubman on U.S. Currency idea. It's higher than one wishes it were. At least certainly for late-2010s Trump. Today there is obviously an angry ideological core around him, many of whom would object to the Harriet Tubman Cash idea.

And if Mike Tre is right in what he says, What the heck is Glenn Reynolds thinking?

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The floating of Gaetz's name is a political statement, of course.

Trump or the Trump people (whoever is managing this show) are keeping the big-name nominations flowing out at a steady rate, to control the news-cycle. And for Reality-TV-like twists and turns. There is an unescapable "showbiz" element to all the Trump actions.

The (ostensible) nominees' names are being released at far earlier than convention would dictate. And they are as a rule provocative.

It has the hallmarks of Trump-style negotiation. Or bazaar-style bartering -- something traditionally thought low-class, tawdry, by White-Western people. (To the extent White-Western core supporters of Trump are okay with this, it's because they hate the Regime and want to do it damage and humiliate it. Such negativity is understandable but also a classic, proverbial double-edged sword.)

The strategy I refer to: "If you want 10, ask for 50. If they offer 25 in return, make a big fuss and demand 35. If they settle at 30, you've won big. And, screw the other guy for stupidly losing 20 -- paying 30 when we want 10. What a loser!"

PS: Don't know if he knows his stuff or they'd even try it, but a ZH commenter said something about closing the Congressional Session, then doing a recess appointment. I just don't know these details very well.

Better to put the pressure on Senator Thune. How? Gotta be something on him - better know some NSA people you can trust.

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As previously mentioned, this has to clear the Senate, now run by a RINO and no friend of Trump named Thune. I would imagine more than a few Trump appointees will die in the Senate confirmation process.

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